Refactoring Podcast

Burnout is a System Issue 🪫 — with Dominika Rogala

Today's guest is Dominika Rogala, former VP of Engineering and now advisor for CTOs and tech leaders. With Dominika, we talked about burnout in engineering teams, on whic

Building With Agents Today 🤖 — with Charlie Guo

Today's guest is Charlie Guo, developer experience engineer at OpenAI.  With Charlie, we explore the evolution of AI coding tools, how this is affecting team organizatio

Speed Is the Only Moat 🏎️ — with Anush Elangovan

Today's guest is Anush Elangovan, VP of AI Software at AMD. With Anush, we talked about how he thinks about open source as a key strategic driver in the AI era, and how h

The Rise of Malleable Software 🧩 — with Geoffrey Litt

Today's guest is Geoffrey Litt, Design Engineer at Notion. With Geoffrey, we talked about malleable software, a type of platform that kind of always existed, but is now g

The Power of Stories ✍️ — with Michael "Rands" Lopp

Today's guest is Michael Lopp, better known as Rands, who is writer of several popular books about engineering management, including "Managing Humans", which is a persona

Understanding Engineers' Needs 🧬 — with Lara Hogan

Today's guest is Lara Hogan, an author, public speaker and coach for managers and leaders across the whole tech industry. And she's had a long career as VP of engineering

The Future of Engineering 🔮 — with James Stanier

Today's guest is James Stanier, CTO at Nordhealth, former director at Shopify, an author of several books about engineering management, remote work, and more. With James

The State of Product Development 🔍 — with Doug Peete

Today's guest is Doug Peete, Chief Product Officer at Atono, with whom over the last few months we have developed a deep industry report about the state of product develo

How to Own Your Career 🦝 — with Jean Hsu and Cate Huston

Today's guests, plural, are Jean Hsu and Cate Huston.They're both extremely experienced engineering leaders and coaches, accomplished authors, and have held leadership ro

AI Coding meets Code Health 🪄 — with Stuart Caborn

Today's guest is Stuart Caborn, distinguished engineer at loveholidays, which is an online travel agency with millions of customers around the world. I'm talking with St

Every Engineer Is a Manager Now 🤖 — with Chris Lattner

Today’s guest is Chris Lattner, one of the most important engineers for modern computing. Chris invented key compiler infrastructure tech like LLVM and MLIR, but he’s als

What Comes After the IDE 🖥 — with Amelia Wattenberger

Today's guest is Amelia Wattenberger, former principal research engineer at GitHub and now partner at Sutter Hill Ventures. But she's also a product lead at Augment Code

Leading Beyond the Framework 🧭 — with Richard Hughes-Jones

Today's guest is Richard Hughes-Jones, a professional executive coach with more than 20 years of experience.  With Richard, we talked about how to coach tech leaders thr

How to Master Behavioral Interviews 🎤 — with Austen McDonald

Today's guest is Austen McDonald, former hiring committee chair at Meta, and author of the book, "Mastering Behavioral Interviews."  Austen, in his career, conducted mor

Building Apps with Your Voice 🎤— with Paige Bailey

Today's guest is Paige Bailey, Developer Relations Lead at Google DeepMind. And before that, Principal Product Manager at GitHub, where she launched Copilot and several o

How Todoist is Built ✅ — with Gonçalo Silva

Today's guest is Gonçalo Silva, CTO of Doist, the company behind Todoist and Twist. This interview is an incredible behind the scenes about one of the most peculiar comp

Career Sabbaticals and Self Discovery 🔍 — with Thiago Ghisi

Today's guest is Thiago Ghisi!Thiago is former director of engineering at Nubank and with a long and successful tech career in companies like ThoughtWorks, Apple and more

The State of AI Adoption 📊 — with Matt McClernan

Today's guest is Matt McClernan, CEO of Augment Code! With Matt, we went through the findings of our own research that we developed together with Augment, surveying more

How to Build Product Development Teams 🛠️ — with Rob Zuber

Today's guest is Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI!With Rob, we talked about software delivery, the impact of AI, and how to build great product engineering teams. And next, we

From Knowledge to Wisdom 🧠 — with Hywel Carver

Today's guest is Hywel Carver! Hywel is co-founder and CEO of Skiller Whale, which provides live team coaching for software engineering teams. With Hywel, we got deep int